Sammo

22nd Sep 2021

Martial Law (1998)

Deathfist 5: Major Crimes Unit - S2-E15

Plot hole: The whole case is solved because of astronomical coincidences, since the culprit is someone related to the actor, who is teaming up with the investigators for an entirely unrelated reason. Los Angeles is kinda too big for this sort of 'coincidence'. Moreover, had they committed the crime any other day (there was no particular reason) there would have been no connection.

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Character mistake: In the fight in the Shaolin temple the Bruce Lee impersonator fights 4 monks who are supposed to attack him simultaneously, and they do, but Miss amazingly obvious openings, to the point of spending long seconds hopping around without attacking. Many martial arts movies feature as Common Mistake the main character facing multiple enemies that fight quite inefficiently, but few are this obvious when it comes to waiting a cue. (00:13:00)

Sammo

20th Sep 2021

Stone (2010)

Continuity mistake: When Young Jack threatens to throw his daughter out of the window, Young Madelyn promises him that she won't leave him. Pepper Binkley's hair is behind her left shoulder throughout the scene, except in the shot afterwards, when it's in front of the shoulder. (00:03:30)

Sammo

20th Sep 2021

Martial Law (1998)

Character mistake: In the first chapter of Night of the Yokai, after saving King and Ryo, Yuri talks to them about Yuri saving King and Ryo. Yes, in third person, which is not a quirk she shows in any other in-game dialogue.

Sammo

20th Sep 2021

Overboard! (2021)

Bug: In the "Banged up" ending that happens after you get caught murdering at least one character other than your husband, the other person is not always listed correctly - pushing Richard Carstairs overboard can lead to an article about Veronica murdering her husband and Ms. Turpentine, for instance.

Sammo

19th Sep 2021

The Simpsons (1989)

Other mistake: Peter Chang is billed in the opening credits as the one and only Fighting Instructors, plural.

Sammo

15th Sep 2021

The Vultures (1984)

Continuity mistake: Legionnaires are being mowed down left and right by enemy fire in a Nazi ambush. One of them falls into a road construction excavation. He falls on his back, but the close-up of his feet touching the power cable shows them facing down.

Sammo

12th Sep 2021

The Suicide Squad (2021)

Continuity mistake: When Harley and not-Milton join the others at the end of the movie, shadow areas appear and disappear between shots (rather obvious when King Shark asks his first "Num-num?"). (02:01:10)

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Continuity mistake: When the prostitute is reflected in the mirror, her kimono bares one of the shoulders. She turns, and both shoulders are covered. (00:08:55)

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Other mistake: Despite being a deadly marksman (only a few minutes earlier in the movie he stopped a bullet directed at him shooting it off the air), Bloodsport snipes several times at the huge kaiju featuring a massive eye in the central part of its body, and never once hits it. (01:51:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Polka-Dot Man shoots his projectiles at his giant mom, he's standing in the sun or in the shade depending on the camera angle. (01:52:45)

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Continuity mistake: When the people in the control room wake up and find out there's "A freakin' Kaiju", the clocks are showing entirely different timezones from the previous instances, with a wild difference from one another (earlier they were a couple hours apart, now we have even 9 hours), and none of which matching the time when the action supposedly takes place (it was late morning, past 10 AM as shown by the surveillance room clock and the phone in the hands of Harley's torturer). (01:46:45)

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6th Sep 2021

Xiong zhong (1982)

Continuity mistake: When "Bruce Lee" is fighting the bad guys after he catches the poker cheater, there are multiple continuity mistakes; the bad guys are knocked atop the tables in the room but they disappear and reappear from those tables between shots.

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6th Sep 2021

Pledge This! (2006)

Continuity mistake: Used condoms start trickling down from a jar stuck in a tree. The woman subjected to this unusual rain looks up and one of the condoms gets on her face, over her eye. When the big bundle of condoms drops on her head, it is shown through two shots that are not at all in continuity with one another; different posture, head angle and the eye condom is gone and then back. (00:40:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Flag collapses after his fight with Peacemaker, his hand is off the shower tray. Peacemaker then talks to Ratcatcher 2, and Flag's hand is well on the tray. (01:31:40 - 01:32:05)

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6th Sep 2021

Tiger Claws (1991)

Continuity mistake: When Cynthia Rothrock acts as a bait for the maniac at the beginning of the movie, she is walking down the nice and brightly lit slums in black high heels. A fight ensues, and she kicks him around wearing black sneakers (after her triple roundhouse she strikes a pose in a wide shot and it's very noticeable). Her incompetent partner joins in late, and she walks out on him wearing high heels again. (00:01:55)

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Continuity mistake: An personal assistant brings news about the attack on Jotunheim. Suarez turns towards her holding a sheet, but in the previous shot he already threw the document on the desk striking a pensive pose. (01:22:05)

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Continuity mistake: When Peacemaker sticks the detonator inside the explosive after the humorous argument with King Shark, the detonator is suddenly lower in the last shot. (01:21:45)

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